"The Surrendered" author at Park Road Books

Chang-rae Lee, one of The New Yorker's 20 best writers under 40, will sign copies of his latest novel, "The Surrendered," at Park Road Books, 4139 Park Road, 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 8.

Now in paperback, "The Surrendered" tells the story of three people whose lives collide at a Korean orphanage following the Korean War.

The New York Times calls the novel "a gripping and fiercely imagined work."

Lee, whose books include "A Gesture Life" and "Aloft," won the Hemingway Foundation /PEN Award for First Fiction for "Native Speaker." He teaches creative writing at Princeton University.